He tells Sully he doesn't need him and wishes he'd never made him up in the first place. Which is uncharacteristically cruel of Sam.
I actually enjoyed this line, because I disagree (unfortunately) that the cruelty was uncharacteristic. Sam is kind of extreme, you know? I thought it was very reflective of what we would see later-- Flagstaff, Stanford (even if you think there were only two years of silence vs. four), the missing six months after Mystery Spot, Ruby, etc. I don't think he ever trusted any of his decisions, so he burns all the bridges to make his decisions necessary.
The one thing that really left me wondering about this episode was how we were meant to assess Sam's grasp of reality from childhood on. It seems like the new head canon is that Sam was never really moored in the world very well. An imaginary friend, the Easter Bunny, teen kitsune girls, killer clowns, Lucifer (if only we could retcon Amelia into non-reality too.) I felt like the arc of S1-5 for Sam was Pride Goes Before A Fall, but now I feel like it's Sam Is Not A Part of Your World.
Dean, Dean, Dean. Jensen said once that he thought it was his job to make Dean less of a dick, but after the MoC, forget that. He knows he'll never have a chance at that dream of domesticity anymore, so why bother to be nice?
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I actually enjoyed this line, because I disagree (unfortunately) that the cruelty was uncharacteristic. Sam is kind of extreme, you know? I thought it was very reflective of what we would see later-- Flagstaff, Stanford (even if you think there were only two years of silence vs. four), the missing six months after Mystery Spot, Ruby, etc. I don't think he ever trusted any of his decisions, so he burns all the bridges to make his decisions necessary.
The one thing that really left me wondering about this episode was how we were meant to assess Sam's grasp of reality from childhood on. It seems like the new head canon is that Sam was never really moored in the world very well. An imaginary friend, the Easter Bunny, teen kitsune girls, killer clowns, Lucifer (if only we could retcon Amelia into non-reality too.) I felt like the arc of S1-5 for Sam was Pride Goes Before A Fall, but now I feel like it's Sam Is Not A Part of Your World.
Dean, Dean, Dean. Jensen said once that he thought it was his job to make Dean less of a dick, but after the MoC, forget that. He knows he'll never have a chance at that dream of domesticity anymore, so why bother to be nice?